An account of the English dramatick poets, or, Some observations and remarks on the lives and writings of all those that have publish'd either comedies, tragedies, tragi-comedies, pastorals, masques, interludes, farces or opera's in the English tongue by Gerard Langbaine.
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An account of the English dramatick poets, or, Some observations and remarks on the lives and writings of all those that have publish'd either comedies, tragedies, tragi-comedies, pastorals, masques, interludes, farces or opera's in the English tongue by Gerard Langbaine.
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Langbaine, Gerard, 1656-1692.
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Oxford :: Printed by L.L. for George West and Henry Clements,
1691.
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English drama -- Bio-bibliography.
Opera -- Bio-bibliography.
Theater -- England.
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"An account of the English dramatick poets, or, Some observations and remarks on the lives and writings of all those that have publish'd either comedies, tragedies, tragi-comedies, pastorals, masques, interludes, farces or opera's in the English tongue by Gerard Langbaine." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A49533.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 23, 2025.
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John JONES.
An Author who liv'd in the Reign of King Charles the First, and writ a Play nam'd
Adrasta, or The Womans Spleen, and Loves Conquest, a Tragi-comedy, printed 4o. Lond. 1635. and dedicated to Eugenius, by which Name he desires to comprehend all his Friends, subscribing himself Musophilus. This Play the Actors refus'd, and I think with Justice; it be∣ing very indifferently written. The Intrigue between Damasippus, Frail-ware, and their Wives, in the third Act, is borrow'd from Boccace's Novels Day 8. Nov.8. However the Author was of Opinion it deserved to appear in publick; and therefore prefix'd the follow∣ing Saying of Horace, in his Title-page:
—volet haec sub luce videri,Judicis argutum quae non formidat acumen.
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